Ted has nearly 40 years of experience in media relations, public relations, and executive communications. Early in his career, he worked in a public relations firm and a public radio station before moving on to Lansing where he wrote speeches, guest columns and press releases for state senators for eight years.

He joined Oakland University in 1997 to become the university’s first director of media relations, where he and a small team built OU’s initial media relations department from scratch. In 2013 he moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to serve as associate director of communications for the university’s School of Education. In 2017 he joined Wayne State University as associate director of university communications.

During his career, Ted has been instrumental in placing media experts in print, broadcast and podcast media outlets as diverse as the New York Times, Seattle Post-intelligencer, St. Louis Post Dispatch, CNN and MSNBC, as well as local print and broadcast outlets.

Ted is the author of six books, and his The Paul McCartney Catalog was voted the best discography of 2021 by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods.

From 1998 until 2010, Ted was a hockey columnist for usatoday.com, writing weekly columns about topics and personalities related to the National Hockey League.

Ted’s writing on a variety of topics – true crime, sports, music, health care, movies and television – has appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines and websites nationally and locally.  He has been interviewed hundreds of times by print and broadcast media outlets about his writing.

A lifelong Michigan native, Ted has lived his entire life in the state.